Word: barnstorms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bitterness. In 1948, his left leg became seriously diseased. It had to be amputated. But Schumacher rose from his sickbed to barnstorm Germany in the country's first free elections since the Weimar Republic. His program: all-out nationalism. His voice, stabbing and snarling, demanded return of the Saar (grabbed by France) and the lands east of the Oder (grabbed by Russia), demanded an end to reparations and occupation. The voters turned him down-by a narrow margin. The task of establishing a new German state "fell not to Socialist Kurt Schumacher but to conservative, commonsensical Christian Democrat Konrad...
...edge in 1946, a popular mandate loudly acclaimed by his party followers. But it was not the kind of sweeping percentage that strong-man regimes commonly drum up. Peron, in fact, had not seemed to be trying during the campaign. After taking a leave of absence from office to barnstorm for an overwhelming victory, he canceled all such plans when tiis wife Evita fell gravely ill. Sticking lose to Evita's bedside, he made only four radio campaign speeches...